For BSN or higher RNs, need help for assignment.

[uninspiredluck]

I am doing a project on Beneficence and we need to get the viewpoint from BSN or higher RNs ... If anyone could help I would really appreciate it.

1. In your opinion, how has the principle of beneficence been affected by the nursing shortage and the larger patient loads most nurses have?

2. How can we practice beneficence when resources are non-existent?

3. What is your opinion on the role of beneficence in health care?

4. What events in your life have contributed to your desire and position in which you help others who are less fortunate or find themselves in a compromised situation?

5. How would you define Beneficence? Give an example of how you've used beneficence in your practice.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Welcome!

Is this for school? What semester are you?

[uninspiredluck]

Thank you!

Yes it's for school, I'm finishing up my BSN and should start my capstone in a couple of weeks.

[tyvin, BSN, RN]

In my opinion beneficence in nursing is the reason someone becomes a nurse. The subject matter is extremely wide and varied. Are you doing your capstone on this subject? Hmmm...what is your capstone?

You could also take on the concept of fidelity or non-maleficence with all this as the definitions for all 3 are close but do have distinctive differences. It's tomatoe tamatoe :)

Define the principle of beneficence for us and you'll get more takers.

1. It hasn't affected it in my opinion. It's not the principle of wanting to help others that causes the false nursing shortage.

2. Resources or not, why would you change your principles; I would think that nurses would still care.

3. It can't be done without it.

4. Growing up in a hostile environment where I saw many helpless people hurt by no virtue of their own has contributed to my caring and wanting to help those that I can.

5. Beneficence is the core belief of helping others. It's compassion and goes down to the very aspect of a persons code of ethics and how they choose to honestly, without expected thought of reward, to help others...patient advocacy.

The textbook example is a person breaks a hip, goes to the hospital and the nurse has a pain medication order and gives it to the patient ASAP to take the pain away.

I would have asked in question number 1.; instead of the oh so dreaded nursing shortage, I think it would have presented better if you used the unemployment concern instead.

Good luck to you

[roser13, ASN, RN]

I'm only an ASN, but I feel comfortable in advising you that a majority of responders here will tell you that your assignment is likely made with the goal of obtaining interviews in person. Answers you receive online may or may not come from a nurse.

Contact HR in a local hospital or two and ask to be connected to a nurse manager when can steer you to potential interviewees.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Question 1 assumes there is a nursing shortage which there isn't. Question 4 is awfully personal. Also how can you ensure that any of the people who will answer your questions on here (of which you will find few, as the point of this assignment is not to post the questions on an anonymous messageboard) are, in fact, RNs with BSN or higher degrees?

[BostonFNP, APRN]

These assignments are designed to get you networking with practicing RNs in your area. Go out and interview some!

Sent from my iPhone.

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

Questions 1 and 2 are based on false premises...nursing shortage? Non-existent resources? And does this instructor think that ADN or diploma nurses neither know anything about nor apply ethical principles? Sorry, that assignment is annoying.

But in any case, I agree with PPs that these questions are better suited to actual interviews.

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

There isn't a shortage of nurses in most areas there is a surplus of nurses. There is a shortage of jobs and facilities willing to fully safely staff units.

Again how are you going to prove that your interviewee is BSN or higher?

[loveofrn, BSN, RN]

In your opinion, how has the principle of beneficence been affected by the nursing shortage and the larger patient loads most nurses have?

First of all, I think there is shortage of nurses who are willing to work in other places like home care, clinics e.t.c. The problem is that there is this belief that if you don't work in hospital then you don't have a real job which is false. I will leave this for other RNs to explain further.

Beneficence means to do good or to take positive actions to help others. Yes, it is affecting healthcare because there are many nurses out there who are competent but most hospitals won't hire them because they are Magnet hospital and also with the new study by IOM that "BSN [nurses] possess the skills, knowledge, and abilities needed to manage the increasing complexity of both patients and the healthcare system." This also means that the nurses working in those hospitals will have a large patient loads which will affect quality of care and the time spent with each patient.

How can we practice beneficence when resources are non-existent?

I'm still a first semester nursing student but sometimes we can still practice beneficence without resources that's what nurses are for. To be first responder. For example, there are many ways to control pain without using analgesics such as guided imagery, massage and the rest or to relief a patient that becomes dyspnea suddenly. However, to say resources are non-existent then I will leave that for other nurses to explore that.

What events in your life have contributed to your desire and position in which you help others who are less fortunate or find themselves in a compromised situation?

Such providing care in an emergency situations such as in public which can also lead to lawsuits

How would you define Beneficence? Give an example of how you've used beneficence in your practice.

Am not an RN yet